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...crash site rescuers were hampered by the inhospitableness of the Everglades--and the plane's flammable oil slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...
...June 1995, a month after settling into the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia, he summoned the Pentagon's top intelligence chiefs to his office for a grilling on their fat budgets. "It reminded me of when I took my orals for my master's degree," says retired Lieut. General James Clapper, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency. With Perry's help, Deutch next set up a Joint Space Management Board to control how billion-dollar spy satellites are built. He then proposed a new National Imagery and Mapping Agency to consolidate the organizations that process satellite photos...
Israel has its own ideas of how to deal with Hamas. Immediately after the first bombings, Israel launched a dragnet in the areas still under its control, and military chief of staff Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak demanded from Arafat the arrest of specific individuals, extradition of fugitives from Israeli justice and expansion of the P.A.'s intelligence network...
...high-culture marriages to painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz and poet--drinking buddy Robert Lowell; of cancer; in Manhattan. DIED. MCLEAN STEVENSON, 66, actor; of a heart attack; in Tarzana, California. Stevenson starred in the first three seasons of the '70s television hit M*A*S*H as Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake, a fumbling fisherman-out-of-water who ruled over the blood and irony of an Army hospital during the Korean...
...diplomats say, but allow Tutsi civilian militias, armed with machetes and hammers, to "clean up" after the army's operations, killing some women and children and driving the rest into the hills. Hutu rebels, for their part, also target civilians--Tutsi and Hutu moderates alike. Neither side is apologetic. Lieut. Colonel Longin Minani, an army spokesman in the capital, explains the military clean-up operations this way: "If rebels use the population as a screen to protect themselves, am I supposed to fold my hands and do nothing? [Civilian deaths] are unfortunate but unavoidable...